Question on Sony PD 170 / 150

[Greg Gross]

Okay nchopp,

Thank you for your post and background information. Nice ball from out of

left field! Have you ever heard of Greg Gross(baseball) player? Anyway no

matter. I really had no plans on addressing this subject again. Thank you

for your post and it was well taken by me. Sounds like you have made a

mark in your profession. I only work in the medical field now every other

week for 7 days. I've been respiratory therapist for 34 years(RRT,B.S.) and

I speciaize now only in long term acute care work with ventilators. My unit

in the hospital is sometimes the only place(last place) for a complex patient

to be weaned from the ventilator. Anyway I'm the guy who tries to get them

off the ventilator. Presently I'm working with a lady who ways 400lbs. and her

doctors have nick named me "last chance". When I'm not working in the hospital

I operate my own photography studio, do most of the photography but do have

one girl assistant,I do darkroom work also,quite extensively. I have marketed

myself for doing the photography of independent features and at the present

only dv as I'm still learning Arri,Panaflex, etc. cameras,lenses equipment. I have

no problem with lighting. I called myself "photographer" on the two dv features

that I have completed and asked producer to refer to me as photographer or

photographed by Greg Gross. Along with three other photographers I attend a

class three days a week being taught by a cinematographer who comes from

Philadelphia to teach us. We are paying this gentleman to teach us film production.

When I'm through with film production I want to start training in digital cinema.

At 57 years of age when I blow out the candles on the cake here is what I wish

for-"That the Panaflex Genesis will be some day cheap enough to rent that I can

do a real digital production before I die." What I mean is a feature production. I

prefer the term photographer or phtographed by, not dp. nchopp if I offended

you in any way then you have my sincerest apologies. I am one of the those old

Vietnam grunts,they taught us never to quit and sometimes I don't know when to

quit. You titles and profession have my respect,best regards for your future.

 

Greg Gross

[nchopp]

Okay nchopp,

Thank you for your post and background information. Nice ball from out of

left field! Have you ever heard of Greg Gross(baseball) player? Anyway no

matter. I really had no plans on addressing this subject again. Thank you

for your post and it was well taken by me. Sounds like you have made a

mark in your profession. I only work in the medical field now every other

week for 7 days. I've been respiratory therapist for 34 years(RRT,B.S.) and

I speciaize now only in long term acute care work with ventilators. My unit

in the hospital is sometimes the only place(last place) for a complex patient

to be weaned from the ventilator. Anyway I'm the guy who tries to get them

off the ventilator. Presently I'm working with a lady who ways 400lbs. and her

doctors have nick named me "last chance". When I'm not working in the hospital

I operate my own photography studio, do most of the photography but do have

one girl assistant,I do darkroom work also,quite extensively. I have marketed

myself for doing the photography of independent features and at the present

only dv as I'm still learning Arri,Panaflex, etc. cameras,lenses equipment. I have

no problem with lighting. I called myself "photographer" on the two dv features

that I have completed and asked producer to refer to me as photographer or

photographed by Greg Gross. Along with three other photographers I attend a

class three days a week being taught by a cinematographer who comes from

Philadelphia to teach us. We are paying this gentleman to teach us film production.

When I'm through with film production I want to start training in digital cinema.

At 57 years of age when I blow out the candles on the cake here is what I wish

for-"That the Panaflex Genesis will be some day  cheap enough to rent that I can

do a real digital production before I die."  What I mean is a feature production. I

prefer the term photographer or phtographed by, not dp. nchopp if I offended

you in any way then you have my sincerest apologies. I am one of the those old

Vietnam grunts,they taught us never to quit and sometimes I don't know when to

quit. You titles and profession have my respect,best regards for your future.

 

                                              Greg Gross

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Greg,

 

My apologies as well. I admire the fact that at 57 you're taking the plunge into a new field - it's certainly an exciting one, and one we never stop learning at.

 

My father is the Director of Pastoral Care at hospital, and my mother an RPh. So I know the medical field well. *grin* Good luck with "last chance" - it's amazing how many other health problems go along with obesity. :-\

 

When and where were you in Vietnam? I have several friends that did some pretty major duty over there. One in particular, a former Professor, was a highly decorated rescue chopper pilot. I very nearly joined the Corps out of HS, and sometimes still regret not doing so, even if only for the four years. Three weeks from now I'll be done with my undergrad degree, and I'm still seriously considering OCS. We'll see what happens.

 

 

Best,

Chopp

 

P.S. I'm very much a fan of the PD-150\PD-170 - I've got probably a good 200-300 hours on the 150, most of it ENG and sports broadcasting. It's an amazing piece of hardware for the price point. I just feel the NTSC version is not that hot for narrative story-telling. We still associate that damn 30fps with reality - news, sports, etc. Now, a PAL 150, on the other hand, pulls down to 24 so much easier. :)

[Greg Gross]

nchopp,

Oh yea, I agree completely and I used DX100A's on my two dv features and

heading for a third one. Basically I'm a Sony,Panaflex lover but the DX100A

won me over,its sweet. I get real good wedding results with PD-170 and I do

a lot of pastels/victorian stuff(my trade mark). Army ranger and made staff

sargeant, 1968,1969 and came home 1970. Served with 1st Infantry Division,

1/16th rangers in long range recon. Also served with 9th Infantry Division in

Mekong Delta as 21 man teams(3 teams,seven men each in support of Navy

seal operations with river patrol boats) operated out of Ben Luc. Yes, 400 Lb.

woman is highly complex patient. I'm out of the hospital now for seven days

and I'll be working in my studio all week,catching up on darkroom and talking

to producer and director about next dv feature. They wanted to use Canon XL

2's this time(you know they read a story in a magazine)but I talked them in to

using DX100A's again. When I left hospital patient was having 15-20 sec. peri-

ods of apnea(total cessation of breathing) and I suggested use of "Bi-Level",

two levels of peep that the patient can breathe between. Normally we only use

one level. Peep is "positive end expiratory pressure" this is upon exhalation so

that the air sacs of the lungs are continuosly open,so there is constant crossing

of oxygen in to the blood. Got your e-mail, thanks and good luck with all you

are doing. Hey chopp, one time Im was pinned down in a bomb crater up around

the Iron Triangle. Fly boy came in with a huey set the skid on one side of the

crater and the other side was just hanging in the air. We threw our wounded

through the door and he took off. The whole time charlie was shooting at him.

The fly boys saved my ass so many times!

 

Greg Gross